If you weren't watching TV Sunday night, you missed two boundary testers: Adam Lambert's kiss with another man during his show-ending performance on the American Music Awards and Devin Hester getting pantsed after another pass was thrown inaccurately to him.
So in the spirit of Monday morning quarterbacking, we examine: Was it offensive?
Lambert's kiss What happened: As the gay performer sang his "For Your Entertainment" single on the Dick Clark-produced American Music Awards, he planted a long kiss on his male keyboardist. The performance also included crotch-grabbing and crotch-thrusting.
What Lambert said: "Part of what I love about being a live performer is that sometimes you just are in the moment and sometimes things just happen," he told CNN backstage at the show.
Was it offensive? No more so than all the other sexually suggestive maneuvers used to grab headlines for awards-show performances, though 1,500 people apparently felt otherwise, according to ABC. If you are shocked that this time it's a gay man, rather than Madonna, doing the kissing, then you probably could stand to be shocked.
Hester's pants What happened: In Sunday night's nationally televised game, Bears wide receiver Devin Hester failed to catch a pass thrown poorly by quarterback Jay Cutler. Thinking Hester had caught the ball, the defender grabbed him by the waistband and, in the resultant tug, briefly exposed Hester's buttocks, especially visible on the NBC replay.
What Hester said: Nothing. He apparently wasn't in the mood to give the kind of humorous quote about the incident that we might have gotten had the Bears won.
Was it offensive? It was cheeky, to be sure, but the male backside, accidentally exposed, hardly meets today's standards for shocking. Indeed, the incident may have been the least offensive thing that took place when Hester's team had the ball.
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